The Sheriff

Before Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields on Netflix, there was The Sheriff's Son - a potential suspect for the League City murders. This true story begins on Valentine's Day, 1961. 14 years old, Claudette Carolyn Covey went missing from Hondo, Texas. On Halloween evening, 1961, Claudette's remains were discovered eight miles from town in a field. She had been shot twice in the head. From the beginning, town folks believed that she was murdered by the corrupt sheriff or his 18-year-old son, whom she was dating. Because of the corrupt sheriff's influence, no one was ever charged with the murder. The story follows the life of the sheriff's son from 1961 to his death in 1998. The son was on the edges of many similar murders of young girls in the Houston and Galveston areas-but he was never charged. After 1961, the sheriff's son was arrested twice for the rape of 12-year-old girls, essentially walking away from these charges due to the connections of his father. After the deaths of the father and son, former wives and step children, no longer terrified-came forward. They tell a horrific story of brutality, rape, incest and murder at the hands of the son. Our novel connects the dots and makes the case that a serial killer went to his grave never charged with his many crimes against young women.

She wore high heels and a .45 automatic, a tailored suit dress with a badge engraved SHERIFF pinned under the lapel. She had an explosive temper and a glare that could split rocks, and she had light eyes, pale eyes, the color of a glacier's heart--just like her ancestor, her Great-Great-Grandfather, the second Sheriff of Firelands County, Colorado. When her husband found the Old Sheriff's personal journal in a hidden compartment of their roll top desk, Sheriff Willamina found a door through which she could step, a door that led to another world, another time. Follow the Sheriff from the Northern Ohio farm country through the war that tore the young nation apart, through dirty little coal mining towns and corrupt Kansas villages, aboard steam boat and a plow horse, until a final confrontation with a corrupt official shows Sheriff Willamina Keller that she is cut of the same violent, uncompromising cloth as her pioneering ancestor."--Provided by publisher.

Firelands County, Colorado, just hired a new Sheriff. Firelands County, Colorado, knew their new Sheriff was a Marine, a Gulf War veteran, and was recently graduated from college; they sent their chief deputy to pick up Sheriff Will Keller from the airport. Firelands County, Colorado, did not know their Sheriff would arrive in a tailored, dark-blue suit dress, and high heels. In the Sheriff's first half-hour in-county,she uses a shotgun to stop a barfight, slams a drunk face-first into the painted plasterboard, arrests the Mayor and tells the Board of County Commissioners which of them is an adulterer, with whom and how many times; which of them is a gambler, how much he has lost at the tracks, and at which track; she lets them know in no uncertain terms exactly where they can get off, and proceeds to run her department as she pleases. The Sheriff is here to do a job, and she doesn't fight fair. And she doesn't -- whether it's drug traffickers, a crooked prosecutor, a fiancee or getting justice, Sheriff Willamina Keller gets what she wants. Peacefully, or otherwise. She doesn't care which.

Sheriff Jericho Yates was about to marry a friend as a favor when a gorgeous damsel appeared, dodging bullets and running for shelter. He had to help this woman who didn't know who she was. Rosie wished she could tell Jericho why she'd been running—and how she'd ended up pregnant. She did know she was falling in love with the handsome, engaged sheriff. Then Jericho's marriage was called off… and he showed Rosie how far he'd go to keep her safe. But once her memory returned, would they lose their chance for a future together?

With all her heart Carly Taggert wants to be a mother, but without a husband there's only one way she knows to make it happen—become a foster parent. She’s signed up, willing, waiting and ready...oh so ready. Liam McKenna is assigned by Carly's sheriff father to keep her out of trouble while the sheriff is away. When he learns of her plan, Liam is sure she's headed for it—lock, stock, and barrel. Foster kids are messed up. Broken. Trouble. He ought to know since he was one. There's no talking sense into Carly, and soon Liam finds himself dragged into the chaos and falling for her despite knowing better. She’s a softie, in for a hard fall because those kids aren't hers to keep. But he’s sticking around, and maybe once she knows how painful it can be to let them go, she'll drop the nonsense of having kids and— keep him instead? **This book has a sweet/clean and wholesome version by Kay Lyons titled HERS TO PROTECT. Ivy James is the alter-ego of Kay Lyons, who now focuses on sweet/clean and wholesome contemporary romance and romantic suspense. For more information about Ivy’s slightly sexier novels (or to find Kay’s clean and wholesome versions of them as well as her latest titles), please go to Ivy James Author/Kay Lyons Author.

Simon Malone was racked with grief when his wife passed away suddenly in childbirth, taking their still-born son to the grave with her. Filled with hopeless grief and seeking any thrill, he turned to a life of crime with his friend Bill. Fed up with working on the railroads, they both turned to train robbery and even picked up an extra hand along the way. Not sure of Tommy’s character, they allowed the young boy to journey with them in their grand heists. Stopping into a town for a brief respite, they had a very eventful night at the town saloon. One patron dead and one of the saloon ladies found strangled, the town sheriff and his brazen daughter rush in to investigate the crime. Their eyes met across the room and Simon knew he had to meet this curly-haired, opinionated beauty. Scarlet had always managed to get her way, which is how she avoided being forced into settling on one of the town men and assisted her father on grand investigations of crime. This is also how she got away with ignoring her father’s protests that she assist in the saloon murder. Ignoring the town gossips, she walked through life without much of a care, until she met the green-eyed mystery man named Simon. When their bank heist goes terribly awry, Simon rushes in to save Scarlet, exposing the truth about him and ruining any hope of love with the goody-two-shoes sheriff’s daughter.

She’s the valentine He never stopped loving Sheriff Ben Harper has his life in order. He’s even best man for his brother’s Valentine’s Day wedding. It’s all going well…until Trouble rolls into town. Shelby “Trouble” Young broke Ben’s heart when she left ten years ago—after causing a car crash that almost killed him. Ben should avoid her, but Shelby keeps getting arrested! Could a little trouble be exactly what Cupid ordered? From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Stop the Wedding! Book 1: A Bridesmaid to Remember Book 2: His Brother's Bride Book 3: A Marriage of Inconvenience Book 4: The Sheriff's Valentine